Inking-pad.



No. 669,304. Patentad Mar. 5, IQOI'.

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FRANCIS E. HARRISON, OF RIDLEY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 669,304, dated March5, 1901.

Application filed January 24, 1900. Serial No. 2.590. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS E. HARRISON, acitizen of the United States, residing at Ridley Park, in the county ofDelaware and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Inking- Pads, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates to inking-pads of the kind used in connectionwith rubber handstamps and the like, my object herein being to provide asimple and compact construction,

whereby the premature drying and hardening of the ink-saturated surfacesshall be obviated and the practical efficiency of the device therebyincreased and prolonged.

To this end my invention comprises a base designed to contain asoftening or preservative composition in combination with a double-facedinking-pad adapted to be removably contained within the said base,whereby when one face or surface of the pad is in use the other face orsurface will be subjected to the efficacious action of the composition,and whereby the pad may be reversed in the base from time to time, asdesired.

The invention also includes a construction 0 wherein a yieldingsubstance is interposed between the two faces of the pad.

It also comprises certain details of construction, which will behereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of an inking-padembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan thereof with the cover removed.Fig. 3 is a separate view in perspective of the double-faced pad.

A is a base of suitable material, in which is formed a chamber Ct forthe reception of the duplex pad B, and A is a cap or cover detachablyfitted to the flanged upper end of the base. The chamber a ispreferably, though not essentially, circular in form, and the pad iscorrespondingly shaped, so that it may be readily applied to or removedfrom the same. This pad is provided with two inking surfaces b b, ofabsorbent material-suoh, for example, as felt-either of which surfacesmay be confined within the chamber while the other is exposed.Preferably there is interposed between the two layers of absorbentmaterial ayielding substance b -such, for example,-as a glue andmolasses composition encircling which is a metallic band 17 for thepurpose of protecting the edge of the substance and also affording aconvenient means whereby the pad may be handled.

lVitnin the chamber a is contained a suitable liquid or compositionsuch,for example as crude petroleum=oil and oil of turpentine-as indicated at0, designed to soften and preserve the inking -surface immersed therein,to the end that when one of such surfaces is in use the underlyingsurface will be subjected to the action of the liquid or composition,the interposed yielding substance during the repeated pressure of thestamp upon the upper surface effecting a working of the lower surface insuch liquid or composition and insuring thereby the effectual saturationand treatment of the latter surface.

The pad is reversed' in the base from time to time, as convenience orneed may require, to maintain its surfaces in proper working condition.

I claim- 1. In combination with a base or receptacle adapted to containa softening or preservative composition, a reversible inking-padremovably contained in said base or receptacle, said pad comprising twosurfaces of absorbent material with an interposed body of yieldingsubstance whereby during the repeated pressure upon the upper surfaceattending the use of a hand-stamp, the action of the interposed yieldingsnbstance will effect a working or kneading of the lower surface in suchcomposition, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a base or receptacle adapted to contain asoftening or preservative composition, a reversible inking-pad removablycontained in said base or receptacle, said pad comprising two surfacesof absorbent ma- ;terial with an interposed body of yielding substance,together with a band encircling said body, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRAN 01s" E. HARRISON.

Witnesses:

ANDREW V. GROUPE, JOHN R. NOLAN.

